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Backfilling and Final Touches

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What happens here

Once the retaining wall reaches the desired height, the area behind the blocks is backfilled with gravel for drainage and stability. Geotextile fabric is laid against the excavated dirt wall before backfilling to prevent soil erosion and mixing with the gravel. The mini excavator carefully dumps gravel behind the wall, and workers spread and compact it. A Milwaukee blower is used to clear dust and debris from the block surfaces, ensuring a clean finish. The last course of blocks is installed, completing the wall.

Goal: Complete the retaining wall with backfill and clean up

Tools and materials

  • Geotextile Fabric — Lining the back of the wall for drainage and soil separation
  • Gravel — Backfilling behind the wall
  • Milwaukee Blower Milwaukee — Cleaning dust and debris from blocks
  • Mini Excavator Bobcat 325 — Dumping gravel for backfilling
  • Rosetta Blocks Rosetta — The final course of the retaining wall
  • Shovel — Spreading and leveling gravel

What they say

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curl it in curl up curl it in are you talking to me yeah you can get at those now right I think that's how Blaine and I would do it I don't remember yeah that's what it was it doesn't lock itself you got it well there's a lot of options when it comes to Big Block retaining walls and a lot of these Big Blocks have similarities they typically have a kind of a rocky patterned face and they're Hollow core so you've got to core fill them to get them to work and they're typically square and so it kind of looks and you get you guys can just drive around and probably look over and see them that just looks like a bunch of square rock face cement blocks stuck together I don't get it the Aesthetics of those just don't drive for me maybe they do for you great for me no but these have enough variation in them that they actually bring that illusion of actually having a structural rock wall to the next level yeah lower uh little now he does oh not no more back up a little bit and lower the boom down I think you'll make it now yep but get a little bit lower so you can still lift it up so it's not sliding across the top of here too much just go across easier what if it's just dragging across the top it won't slide is easy if it's up of a pinch or two there you go there you go yep there you go a little more it says it gets a little touchy and sensitive when you get in here no nothing [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning everyone last day of building I don't say that come on it's downhill from here but so verse verslac the boys were cooking burgers and hot dogs and I didn't go but Alex and Tim went I'm pretty sure they tried to kill him yeah you got some food poisoning going on for sure maybe maybe he says planned for the day yeah I'm gonna build some wall yeah this is some pretty cool block to use though yeah I mean it's going in pretty easy too real I mean all things considered yeah this stuff was out not under a deck and we 've done yesterday oh yeah oh yeah I like it I do too I do more of these there's a lot of talent there's a lot of Tolerance on them they go up quick [Applause] [Music] ly just a little bit and then we're right here you know and then we're a little far forward you know and then that way or we just run it yeah you really don't even have to glue it but no glue it just to be sink this you're getting the Best of Both Worlds because you're getting irregular shaped…

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